Censorship on TV

Programming is what attracts audiences to television but advertising is the primary means of revenue generation for most networks and stations.  In a situation when 1) specific broadcast programming is attacked for containing too much “skin and sin” by traditional family values groups, 2) advertisers are inundated with thousands of email, letters and telephone calls [...]

Tell Me what you think

This is an experiment…
1. Review the theoretical underpinnings of persuasive messages in relation to specific audiences, taking into account at least three of the following constructs: agenda setting, diffusion of innovation, central and peripheral processing, cognitive dissonance, source credibility, reasoned action, two-step flow, selectivity, expectancy-value and fear appeals.  As a writer/producer, which basic model would [...]

A poem inspired by the Wire

A Witness
 
A witness
Is an idiot
For helping the cop
Not very bright
 
Darwin’s nightmare
Adapt or die
Keep quiet or die
Law conflicts with evolution
 
Can’t see the forest but for the trees
We are the forest
Structure is a tree
Nature still applies

I can’t believe the professor encouraged me to write on this topic

Powder Road: a primer in drug trafficking
                       
“Always there is more”—The Greek
 
Drugs are a commodity, like many others, in that they are produced, distributed, and sold—by individuals or corporations—to make a profit. Like many other products, the people at the beginning and the end of the distribution chain are the people making the least amount [...]